![]() ![]() Popular Authors on SSMT Agatha Christie Alice Munro Ambrose Bierce Amy Hempel Ann Beattie Anton Chekhov Arthur Conan Doyle Barry Hannah Bernard Malamud Carson McCullers Clarice Lispector Donald Barthelme Edgar Allan Poe Edna O'Brien Ernest Hemingway Eudora Welty F. After a silence of a few minutes I heard Mahony exclaim:Īs I neither answered nor raised my eyes Mahony exclaimed again: He stood up slowly, saying that he had to leave us for a minute or so, a few minutes, and, without changing the direction of my gaze, I saw him walking slowly away from us towards the near end of the field. And that’s quite a trick on Joyce’s part.Īfter a long while his monologue paused. Shame on the narrator for being so naive. Imagine my surprise then when things go very definitely in a certain direction, shall we say, and Mahony’s distrust is proved prudent. Well, these attitudes were in keeping with the paradigm I already had in my head for the story. When they encounter the old man, the narrator is polite and agreeable, while Mahony (the bad kid) looks askance from afar. Maybe I brought the cliché to the pages before Joyce even had a chance, but in any case, I read this story as your classic “bad kid leads innocent narrator astray” situation. ![]() I read this story of two boys playing hooky from school anticipating the cliché. ![]()
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